After making landfall on the southwest coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Tropical Cyclone Owen reversed course and it is now making landfall on the coast of Queensland between Kowanyama and the Gilbert River Mouth.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Owen was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0S and longitude 141.4\u00b0E which put it about 55 miles (85 km) south-southwest of Kowanyama, Australia.\u00a0 Owen was moving toward the southeast at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 975 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Karumba to Cape Keerweer, Queensland and adjacent coastal areas including Kowanyama, Pormpuraaw, Croydon and Palmerville.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Owen moved quickly across the southern Gulf of Carpentaria during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 The circulation around Owen reorganized after the center of circulation moved away from the southwest coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria.\u00a0 An eye reformed at the center of circulation and more thunderstorms developed.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Owen strengthened back into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.\u00a0 The circulation around Owen is small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force only extend out about 20 miles (35 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Owen will be capable of causing minor wind damage over a localized area near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain will fall along the track of Owen as it moves inland across Queensland.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone Owen is forecast to pass south of Cairns and it could be near Townsville in about 36 hours.\u00a0 The rain will likely cause flooding in some locations.\u00a0 A Flood Warning has been issued for the Jordan River.\u00a0 Flood Watches have been issued for the Gulf of Carpentaria, south Cape York Peninsula and coastal catchments from Cape Tribulation to Rainbow Beach in Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After making landfall on the southwest coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Tropical Cyclone Owen reversed course and it is now making landfall on the coast of Queensland between Kowanyama and the Gilbert River Mouth.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Owen was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0S and longitude 141.4\u00b0E […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,76,2],"tags":[1386,78,991,93,1396,1389,82,623,1397,1385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}